The Daily Mail (London, England), July 4th, 2003
Byline: PETER LEWIS
HERE is a deviant and controversial biography that seeks to revise recent history. It pulls Mussolini out of Hitler's shadow, where he long languished as the Fuhrer's semi-comic sidekick, and sets him before us as by far the more interesting, original and gifted of the two dictators.
He was, says Farrell, 'a great man who failed, not half as bad as he has been painted, certainly not an evil man'.
Can he make good such a surprising degree of admiration? Farrell claims that Mussolini took power peacefully and ruled Italy for 20 years by popular consent, without repressio...
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